rooted in the traditions of the Lowcountry. Here in Charleston, where historic piazzas catch salt-laden breezes and interiors balance grandeur with restraint, Black Limba's grey-to-black streaks find a natural kinship with wrought iron, weathered brick, and the moody patinas that define the peninsula's most storied homes. The veneer's golden brown heartwood darkens gracefully over time — a quality Charleston designers understand intimately, working as they do in a city where age is not concealed but celebrated. That same living quality, that slow deepening of tone, will carry the wood northward along the lake-edged coast of Michigan, where the light changes entirely and the demands placed on figured veneer become something